new file mode 100644

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@

+bugfixes:

+- Ansible.Basic - Fix issue when deserilizing a JSON string that is not a dictionary - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55691

@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ namespace Ansible.Basic

             LogEvent(String.Format("[WARNING] {0}", message), EventLogEntryType.Warning);

         }

-        public static Dictionary<string, object> FromJson(string json) { return FromJson<Dictionary<string, object>>(json); }

+        public static object FromJson(string json) { return FromJson<object>(json); }

         public static T FromJson<T>(string json)

         {

 #if CORECLR

@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ namespace Ansible.Basic

             if (args.Length > 0)

             {

                 string inputJson = File.ReadAllText(args[0]);

-                Dictionary<string, object> rawParams = FromJson(inputJson);

+                Dictionary<string, object> rawParams = FromJson<Dictionary<string, object>>(inputJson);

                 if (!rawParams.ContainsKey("ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS"))

                     throw new ArgumentException("Module was unable to get ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS value from the argument path json");

                 return (IDictionary)rawParams["ANSIBLE_MODULE_ARGS"];

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Function Assert-DictionaryEquals {

         if ($actual_value -is [System.Collections.IDictionary]) {

             $actual_value | Assert-DictionaryEquals -Expected $expected_value

-        } elseif ($actual_value -is [System.Collections.ArrayList]) {

+        } elseif ($actual_value -is [System.Collections.ArrayList] -or $actual_value -is [Array]) {

             for ($i = 0; $i -lt $actual_value.Count; $i++) {

                 $actual_entry = $actual_value[$i]

                 $expected_entry = $expected_value[$i]

@@ -2347,6 +2347,23 @@ test_no_log - Invoked with:

         $actual.invocation | Assert-DictionaryEquals -Expected @{module_args = @{}}

         $actual.output | Assert-DictionaryEquals -Expected @{a = "a"; b = "b"}

     }

+

+    "String json array to object" = {

+        $input_json = '["abc", "def"]'

+        $actual = [Ansible.Basic.AnsibleModule]::FromJson($input_json)

+        $actual -is [Array] | Assert-Equals -Expected $true

+        $actual.Length | Assert-Equals -Expected 2

+        $actual[0] | Assert-Equals -Expected "abc"

+        $actual[1] | Assert-Equals -Expected "def"

+    }

+

+    "String json array of dictionaries to object" = {

+        $input_json = '[{"abc":"def"}]'

+        $actual = [Ansible.Basic.AnsibleModule]::FromJson($input_json)

+        $actual -is [Array] | Assert-Equals -Expected $true

+        $actual.Length | Assert-Equals -Expected 1

+        $actual[0] | Assert-DictionaryEquals -Expected @{"abc" = "def"}

+    }

 }

 try {

@@ -429,3 +429,17 @@

     that:

     - not request_status_code_comma.changed

     - request_status_code_comma.status_code == 202

+

+# https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/55294

+- name: get json content that is an array

+  win_uri:

+    url: https://{{httpbin_host}}/base64/{{ '[{"abc":"def"}]' | b64encode }}

+    return_content: yes

+  register: content_array

+

+- name: assert content of json array

+  assert:

+    that:

+    - not content_array is changed

+    - content_array.content == '[{"abc":"def"}]'

+    - content_array.json == [{"abc":"def"}]